Heat production and geotherms for the continental lithosphere

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 307, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 59-70

  Hasterok, D ^a   Chapman, D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental lithosphere; Craton; Geotherm; Heat generation; Xenolith thermobarometry

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRATON; ELEVATION DATA; GENERALIZED MODELS; GEOTHERMS; HEAT PRODUCTION; HEAT-PRODUCING; LABORATORY STUDIES; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE COMPOSITION; MANTLE XENOLITHS; NORTH AMERICAN; PARTITION MODEL; PRECAMBRIAN; REFERENCE MODELS; SURFACE HEAT FLOW; XENOLITH THERMOBAROMETRY;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER; PETROGRAPHY; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

LITHOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRATON; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; GRANULITE; HEAT FLOW; HEAT PRODUCTION; ISOSTASY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-T CONDITIONS; PETROLOGY; PRECAMBRIAN; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; XENOLITH;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 79957950076     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.034     Document Type: Article

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